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Betty Churcher, former Director of the National Gallery of Australia, has died at the age of 84 and, in her last interview with 7.30, she said she wasn't scared of death and was still desperately passionate about art....

Hundreds of people attended a state funeral in Melbourne today for former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser, a key character in the constitutional crisis of November, 1975. But Fraser was also remembered as a proud and principled Australian, a keen fisherman and a joker who would boast about ...

Family and friends of former prime minister Malcolm Fraser have filled The Scots' Church in Melbourne for his State Funeral. He rose to power during one of the most turbulent periods in Australian politics. Fraser served as prime minister between November 1975 and March 1983. ...